Re: Ergonomic chairs

2013-01-26 Thread Martin yara
I have slightly scoliosis and I suffer from back pain from time to time. The cheap chair I was using was killing me so I decided to buy a new chair and I chose a duorest. About US$400 in Amazon Japan. It's double back ( double pad) forces me to sit straight and (maybe) helps my back to not get

Re: Rigging resources

2013-01-26 Thread Greg Maguire
Hi Manny, Thank you so much for the 3DMastermind DVD's. I've skimmed through all the Chapters and they are really great. Of course, I've learnt a few things already just by doing that. :) Looking forward to going through them all in more detail. Warmest regards, On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:56

Re: OT: Ergonomic chairs

2013-01-26 Thread Greg Maguire
I picked up a brand new Aeron at an ILM fire sale for $125. Great deal, good chair. But my absolute favourite chair ever is beneath me now, the Knoll Life Chair. Great controls and very comfortable. Good in heat and cold. Experienced both in the heat of San Francisco and the winters in Ireland. I

Re: Rigging resources

2013-01-26 Thread Jason S
Skimmed through it, so that your characters may be well skinned ;) On 26/01/2013 4:39 AM, Greg Maguire wrote: Hi Manny, Thank you so much for the 3DMastermind DVD's. I've skimmed through all the Chapters and they are really great. Of course, I've learnt a few things already just by doing

Re: Ergonomic chairs

2013-01-26 Thread David Saber
I don’t beleive you, one must have 2 pair of knees to use that. From: olivier jeannel Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 12:42 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Ergonomic chairs I sit on that at my home desk :

Re: Color Channel Clipping

2013-01-26 Thread Stefan Andersson
Well I know *that* :) my question was more about if Softimage would clip the values or not when we use Float/Half Float. Maybe it's wasn't all that clear (looking back at how I wrote the question). Maybe if I put it this way Will the Color Channel Clipping be disabled if we use EXR (float or

Re: Color Channel Clipping

2013-01-26 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic
this setting is ignored if rendered to EXR or other float formats On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Stefan Andersson sander...@gmail.comwrote: Well I know *that* :) my question was more about if Softimage would clip the values or not when we use Float/Half Float. Maybe it's wasn't all that

Re: Color Channel Clipping

2013-01-26 Thread Leonard Koch
I thought I answered that question. You already had this from the documentation: *The Color clipping option defines how colors are clipped to a 0 to 1 range if they are not being written at floating-point precision* And then I wrote: *EXR Half Float works exactly the same way as Full Float.*

Re: Color Channel Clipping

2013-01-26 Thread Eric Gunther
ExTrA: from http://docs.autodesk.com/MENTALRAY/2013/ENU/mental-ray-help/ -sorry for the formatting, doesn't seem to be able to be linked to, under index OpenEXR- HTH - Texture Mapping mental ray supports texture, bump, displacement and reflection mapping, all of which may be derived from an